Month: December 2014
11 posts
The movement from below – working class self-organisation
In the last six years, austerity was imposed without the same level of protest as took place in other countries. Working class people were reeling from the shock of the recession and, of course, given no lead by the union leadership. Now, the establishment's claims of economic recovery have given more confidence to people to challenge austerity, crystallising around the hated water charges.
Leaking of Water Charge Protest video to Irish Independent poses serious questions – who leaked it & to whom?
Paul Murphy TD for the Anti-Austerity Alliance has responded to the leaking of a video to the Irish Independent and said that it posed questions as to who leaked it and to whom it was leaked:
Greece: Government brings forward presidential election
Kick out the austerity government and Troika! For a Syriza government with bold socialist policies!
Socialism: the great anti-theft movement
By Cillian Gillespie In 1910, James Connolly wrote his celebrated pamphlet Socialism Made Easy. As well as playing…
Why capitalism must go
Last month something truly spectacular happened, writes Cillian Gillespie. More than ten years after it was launched by the European Space Agency, the Philae lander accompanied by the Rosetta spacecraft landed on a comet 310 million miles from Earth and subsequently sent back numerous images of its surface.
Paul Murphy TD calls for new political movement to challenge in every constituency at general election
Mass movement against water charges & austerity can launch political arm for the 99%.
“All hail to the mob!” – The 99% is the force for change
The establishment fear of the anti-water charges protests was summed up by the Dailly Mail in a front page containing a picture of Ruth Coppinger TD and myself with the headline: “‘Democrats’ who believe in mob rule.”
Australia: Major community victory stops Melbourne’s East-West Toll Road
Socialist Party leads successful campaign against Toll Road and for investment in public transport.
Paul Murphy TD: Outrageous that 19 year old could face criminal record for silly mistake in Jobstown
Part of politicised policing aimed at damaging anti-water charges movement
Capitalist media: cheerleaders for austerity
Socialist Party TD, Ruth Coppinger’s assertion that Independent Newspapers champion austerity, has drawn squawks of indignation from the media. In an attempt to rebuke this, Brendan O’Connor (presumably with a straight face) claimed: “[The Irish Independent] has campaigned hugely against austerity for the last six years”.